Dame Meg Hillier, MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch
Meg Hillier has been an MP since 2005. Currently: Liaison Sub-Committee on Core Tasks of Select Committees; Liaison Committee (Commons); Liaison Committee (Commons).
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) (Identity) (Home Office) | 2009 to 2010 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) (Identity) (Home Office) | 2007 to 2009 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (Department of Energy and Climate Change) | 2010 to 2011 | |
| Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Home Office) | 2010 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Liaison Sub-Committee on Core Tasks of Select Committees | 2026 to now | Now |
| Liaison Committee (Commons) | 2024 to now | Now |
| Liaison Committee (Commons) | 2024 to now | Now |
| Treasury Committee | 2024 to now | Now |
| Liaison Sub-Committee on Scrutiny of Strategic Thinking in Government | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Disabled Persons) Bill | 2022 | |
| Down Syndrome Bill | 2022 | |
| Local Government (Disqualification) Bill | 2021 |
Show the other 11
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Liaison Committee (Commons) | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Public Accounts Committee | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Liaison Committee Sub-committee on the effectiveness and influence of the select committee system | 2019 | |
| Liaison Committee (Commons) | 2017 to 2019 | |
| Public Accounts Committee | 2017 to 2019 | |
| Public Accounts Commission | 2017 to 2024 | |
| Liaison Committee (Commons) | 2015 to 2017 | |
| Public Accounts Committee | 2015 to 2017 | |
| Public Accounts Commission | 2015 to 2017 | |
| Public Accounts Committee | 2011 to 2015 | |
| Northern Ireland Affairs Committee | 2005 to 2006 |
Countries of interest
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Meg Hillier has 9 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Canada between 13 June 2026 and 18 June 2026 | 3 Jul 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the National Executive Committee of the Co-operative Party, as the representative of the Co-op Parliamentary Group. This is an unpaid position. | 3 Jun 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Chair of the House Magazine Advisory Board. This is an unpaid role. | 31 Oct 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Director and Trustee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (UK Branch). This is an unpaid role. | 31 Oct 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Audit and Accountability Foundation. This is an unpaid role. | 8 Oct 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Steering Group of the Institute for Government Academy. This is an unpaid role. | 9 May 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Advisory Board of Reform, a cross party think tank. This is an unpaid role. | 8 May 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Trustee of the PCPF Pension scheme, which oversees the pension fund for members and former members of the UK House of Commons. This is an unpaid role. | 8 May 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the London Regional Board of the Labour Party. | 26 Apr 2024 |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Meg Hillier asked 3 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
73 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Meg Hillier represents Hackney South and Shoreditch. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Meg Hillier won with 59% of the votes, and Laura-Louise Fairley (Green Party) came second with 24%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meg Hillier | Labour | 24,724 | 59.3% |
| Laura-Louise Fairley | Green Party | 9,987 | 23.9% |
| Joanna Reeves | Conservative | 2,076 | 5.0% |
| Theo Roos | Liberal Democrat | 1,996 | 4.8% |
| Anil Bhatti | Reform UK | 1,601 | 3.8% |
| Shahed Hussain | Workers Party of Britain | 1,007 | 2.4% |
| Carol Small | Workers Revolutionary Party | 310 | 0.7% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Meg Hillier took part in 202 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Meg Hillier voted the same way as their party in 200 of the 200 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | Against | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 99% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this